RESUME EXPERIENCE
*New Horizons Computer Learning Center - San Jose, CA Aug. '99 - Dec. '00. Student. Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer track & Office 2000 software. Helped teach A plus certification course & Power Point Presentation. (see Education for list of completed courses) *Broadcast Engineering - Overland Park, KS (from home/office) Dec '97 - present - Published professional writer -- (monthly) in Broadcast Engineering magazine. 50,000 plus readers monthly. Contributing Technical Editor. http://www.broadcastengineering.com (enter my last name in the search box.) *Tech Notes - Florence, OR Jan '97 - present. Co-publish. Free Broadcast industry electronic newsletter with over 6000 subscribers that have asked to be on the list. Addresses the changing technology in broadcasting. Built website (see below) 20,600 different visitors as of December 2007. *SunUp Design Systems - San Jose, CA -- May '98 - April '99 - Instructional Design and Course Developer and Training/Publications coordinator. Designed and developed training materials for software package and wrote training documents. Power Point presentations on software that runs a 500-channel Satellite TV system. *KTVZ-TV Channel 21 - Bend, OR -- Oct '96 - Dec '97 -- Chief Engineer. Responsible for the maintenance and operation of everything. *KCNS-TV Channel 38 - San Francisco, CA -- Jan '96 - Sep '96 - Chief Engineer 5 Megawatt station. Installed the first Broadcast Video Server (BVS) in the market. Rebuilt Master Control to prep station for sale. *Free Lance - Southern California -- Aug '90 - Jan '96 - Television & Project Engineer - Crew & Systems: Technical Director, Cameraman and/or Audio Engineer. Designed MPEG Telecine lab. Built studio & Master Control facilities. Assisted in the development and implementation of other projects. At each project, I was required to not only install the equipment, but set up training sessions for all operational and the maintenance personnel who would remain behind after I had moved on to other projects. Other Broadcast related work
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SUMMARY Bring with me a unique combination of proven skills, a wealth of experience, quality leadership, and an undisputed, globally-recognized, talent to communicate difficult concepts both orally and in writing. Have written two (unpublished) books and write for a monthly national trade magazine, in addition to publishing an industry-accepted newsletter. Actively pursue my on-going education to keep abreast with today's ever-advancing technology. Experienced in most every phase of broadcasting at both the studio & transmitter, including plant design (digital and analog), maintenance and operations. Have a distinct proclivity for interfacing with people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Travel is no problem. REFERENCES References will be made available once a mutual interest has been established.
(Cover letter) To Whom It May Concern: This introductory cover letter was written to give a brief look into my life, character and to supplement the above resume. Resumes tend to be rather cold and austere in nature, so I've taken the liberty to fill in some of the details. I was raised in Southern California. My dad worked in miniature props and special effects in the motion picture industry. Most of our family didn't like going to the movies with him, as he'd tell us how things were done and behind what part of the set the crew was sitting, etc. I love it and, to the chagrin of the rest of the family, I'd ask questions and he'd continue. My oldest sister's husband was an electronic genius. He built the first two television sets they had in their home from spare parts he collected in war surplus stores. He was also a build-it-yourself ham radio operator. Between my dad and brother-in-law, from as far back as I can remember, my fate was cast. I have pictures of me standing with earphones, playing radio engineer from back in the mid 40's. From about my 4th Christmas on, I would find one part or another underneath the tree each year adding to my Lionel train set . It didn't take long for me to have a rather extensive layout in the garage. Going around in circles was dull, so I automated the switches so it would take various paths, switching to avoid other trains and the backside of a switch going the wrong way. As I got older (10 - 14), instead of building forts in the back yard or in a tree, I built mock television studios equipped with the latest in lights, cameras, mics etc., all wooden of course, with my dad's help, but very real looking and to "live" scale. Living in West Los Angeles, Hollywood was just a short bus ride away. I spend most of my holidays from school in tinsel town sneaking into the various studios to see how things were done. There weren't many Los Angeles television facilities that I didn't visit during that youthful period of my life. At first, I got thrown out, but as the engineers at the various stations got to recognize me and thought my precocious questions displayed a marked unusually keen interest, they let me stay. With that kind of early upbringing and interest, it's not hard to understand why television has played such a major roll in my life. Out of high school I got a job with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph's private line services in San Bernardino, CA, as a toll transmission man. Transcontinental television and radio circuits were my specialty. A friend of mine on the local draft board told me that I was very close to getting a letter from them, so I decided to formalize my electronic training by joining the US Navy. The US Navy did afford me the opportunity to attend college. I was fortunate to have been able to attend Stanford in Palo Alto, CA. Sixteen years later and after many very rewarding experiences, duty stations, projects and travels, I was offered a job at Channel 2 in Los Angeles. The lure of working for a CBS O&O in the second largest market was just too much. When a friend contacted me to say there was an opening, I had lived my life for that opportunity, so I chucked my Navy carrier and applied. Many years have passed and much experience gained since those days at Columbia Square. I couldn't pass up the opportunities to be gained from additional experience by freelancing, so that was the path I chose. It paid off. I ended up Chief Engineer at several facilities as the result of a strong background in fundamentals and diversification resulting from the experiences that I was able to acquire. During this time I was able to complete my studies and receive my Bachelor or Science degree. Summing things up, I can narrow my carrier down to three basic areas: Engineering, Teaching and Writing. Let's look at each. Author While Chief Engineer in Central Oregon, I knew I had to stay up with the ever-advancing technology. In association with an associate, who lives and works in the Los Angeles area, we decided that a newsletter addressing digital television was sorely needed. It was well over ten years ago, when we published our first edition of the Tech Notes, we had fifteen subscribers, all of whom we both knew. It was and still is free as an e-mail newsletter. We published well over 135 issues and have grown to a subscriber base of about 6000. As the result of our early work, I was asked to join the writing stable of Broadcast Engineering magazine. Copies of the Tech-Notes newsletter can be seen in the archive section at: www.Tech-Notes.tv website. I was a News Technical Editor for Broadcast Engineering (BE) magazine writing, with rare exception, the entire "Beyond the Headlines" news section for five years. "Beyond the Headlines" consisted of different articles, monthly, covering nearly every aspect of broadcast and production television industry. Occasionally I write features. An example: "Selecting an Antenna System for DTV," April 1998 issue, "The Super Bowl in HD," a feature about how ABC-TV covered Super Bowl XXXIV in the Georgia Dome in January 2000 and Bit Splicing in Compressed Digital Television Streams at 19.4 Mbps. I have occasionally written for international trade publications as well. To write about such a broad base of cutting edge technology, my knowledge and skills must be current or my readers would pick me to pieces in a heartbeat. It is imperative for me to know what I don't know and learn it! As the result of a story I wrote, which appeared in BE (January 1999), about the migration to digital television in the state of Utah, I was invited, and participate in, the inauguration of digital television service to that state in late October of 1999. I have recently been interview by several other trade publications, seeking my prospective on the broadcast industry. Television I have always been a "hands-on" electronics maintenance type. This includes project engineering and all those things all engineers are required to do including the "Chief." I've worked at both small and major market television stations with responsibilities that include every aspect of UHF & VHF transmitter plants, translators, hiring and managing technical/operational personnel, developing and monitoring budgets, making business plans and have overseen the maintenance of everything the station owned, including the parking lot pavement and the house plumbing. I have designed and installed STL, TSL and IRL hops and many other special projects. I conceived, licensed, design, built and owned my own 3 tower array AM radio station; the last to go on the air in Los Angeles County. While with CBS-TV at Mt. Wilson, CA, I maintained 2 full power FM transmitters at their television transmitter site, near Los Angeles. As required, I've established standards and practices manuals at each facility where I've worked. When it didn't interfere with the station's operations, I introduced intern programs so local students could get exposed to that same environment I had experienced when I was younger. I nearly always formalized the training to the point that the non-technical operations personnel would sit in on my classes, especially when it came to the use of test measuring devices such as waveform monitors and vectorscopes. I am very familiar with single point of control - Multichannel television operations, such as A-Sky-B, as I wrote the training material on the software that operates that plant and others. In the area of engineering, I have other verifiable qualifications, which include years of demonstrated experience and abilities in broadcast Engineering/Operations management. Before I close out this section, I'd like to bring to your attention that I have many "firsts" to my credit in Satellite communications and hold an FCC General Class license with a radar endorsement. My membership in professional organizations is listed in my resume. This also serves to keep me abreast of technological trends. Instructional Design and Course Developer - Teacher - Student
Finally In life, we're all salesmen: we either sell ideas, our talents, services or a combination of these three. Interfacing with other members of the broadcast community, sharing with them anything that will help make their jobs and lives better gives me great personal satisfaction. I relish the ongoing personal contact, goodwill, and mutual respect with engineering managers through out the broadcast industry. As of October 15, 2007, I turned sixty-nine years of age. I do NOT ever play to retire or quit. My current occupation is putting together and doing the Taste of NAB Road Show. I love what I do and have lots of fun doing it! There has been nothing in my life that has exceeded the pleasure and satisfaction that I receive from doing this project. The hundreds of comments over the half dozen years about the Taste of NAB Road tell that story. For a grid showing my accomplishments with respect to the Taste Of NAB Road Shows, visit: http://www.tech-notes.tv/Taste_of_NAB.html - that tells the story.
Lawrence (Larry) Bloomfield |